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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2005, 3:56 AM EST for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2005, 3:56 AM EST (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2005, 4:45 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tazewell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 15, 6:43 PM EST, 9 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 6:43 PM EST, 9 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 15, 1:46 PM EST, 14 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 146 PM EST TUE NOV 15 2005 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-161900- ASHE-ALLEGHANY-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES- YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY- GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL- APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- GREENBRIER- 146 PM EST TUE NOV 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A WEAKENING LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE APPALACHIANS TOWARD DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY. BECAUSE OF VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE A POSSIBILITY FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE AREA FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS...INTO EARLY AFTERNOON IN THE PIEDMONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY WEDNESDAY.
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.